New F20 owner!

Hi folks,

I just replaced my year-old Casio EX-Z750 with a Fujifilm F20. The Casio had been through it's fair share of weather, hikes, globe-trotting, and in/out of my pocket a few times too many. Somehow dust accumulated inside the camera on the CCD sensor and it started showing up in pictures.

Anywho! The first thing I noticed about the F20 is how great it handles in low-light situations; however, in bright conditions it has one heck of a tendancy to overexpose. I've read the remedies to this issue in previous posts, but I noticed alot of the pictures posted of the F20 were "processed".

What programs do you folks use to process your pictures? I'm guessing alot of people have Photoshop; however, is there good program out there a bit more on the budget-friendly side?

Thank you

l8

Yes, Photoshop Elements about $50 online, and Paint Shop Pro X, and I think they just released XI. Also, dial in -1/3 EV and leave it there for casual shooting and in some cases even -2/3.

lazy8 said:

Hi folks,

I just replaced my year-old Casio EX-Z750 with a Fujifilm F20. The
Casio had been through it's fair share of weather, hikes,
globe-trotting, and in/out of my pocket a few times too many.
Somehow dust accumulated inside the camera on the CCD sensor and it
started showing up in pictures.

Anywho! The first thing I noticed about the F20 is how great it
handles in low-light situations; however, in bright conditions it
has one heck of a tendancy to overexpose. I've read the remedies
to this issue in previous posts, but I noticed alot of the pictures
posted of the F20 were "processed".

What programs do you folks use to process your pictures? I'm
guessing alot of people have Photoshop; however, is there good
program out there a bit more on the budget-friendly side?

Thank you

l8

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Also, GIMP is free and I hear its a great program (sophisticated too, similar to photoshop, not like Picasa or anything but a program like Picasa is much easier to handle and grasp at first).

Sinan Tarlan said:

lazy8 said:

Hi folks,

I just replaced my year-old Casio EX-Z750 with a Fujifilm F20. The
Casio had been through it's fair share of weather, hikes,
globe-trotting, and in/out of my pocket a few times too many.
Somehow dust accumulated inside the camera on the CCD sensor and it
started showing up in pictures.

Anywho! The first thing I noticed about the F20 is how great it
handles in low-light situations; however, in bright conditions it
has one heck of a tendancy to overexpose. I've read the remedies
to this issue in previous posts, but I noticed alot of the pictures
posted of the F20 were "processed".

What programs do you folks use to process your pictures? I'm
guessing alot of people have Photoshop; however, is there good
program out there a bit more on the budget-friendly side?

Thank you

l8

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I think in a year you will find the F20 to be prone to dust problems as well, unless you take measure to mitigate the dust from entering. I really reccomend a case to isolate the camera from dust or one of these flexis skins might help.......... send them an email and ask them if there going to be making one for the F20

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=19867736

I use photoshop 7, neat image, shaystevens.com purple fringe removal.
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I am a big fan of Flickr and people tag photo with keyword such as "photoshop", "gimp", "picasa", and "paint.net" that are few photo editing software that I am aware off. All execpt "photoshop" are free.

photoshop (102,263 photos when I check 2 weeks ago)
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=photoshop&m=tags

gimp (6,668 photos when I check 2 weeks ago)
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=gimp&m=tags

paint.net (25 photos when I check 2 weeks ago)
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=paint.net&m=tags

photofilter (17 photos when I check 2 weeks ago)
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=photofilter&m=tags

picasa (9,708 when I check 2 weeks ago)
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=picasa&m=tags

But I am not certain if the tag is relevant to people using the tool in editing the image. If it does, we get a rough idea how Flickr users use the software both free and commercial one for a fee.

Thanks,
Hin
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I either user photoshop elements, or the editor in Iphoto on my mac.

If you're concidering between Photoshop Elements 4 and Paintshop Pro XI go with Paintshop Pro. You can download both programs and try them out for free which I highly recommend. Dollar for dollar there is NO comparison. Elements is very basic compared to Paintshop Pro. I own both and can't see how Elements even sells for what it does in it's present form, I paid 39 bucks for Elements and feel like I overpaid! There are freeware and shareware programs that are more powerful. Both Elements and Paintshop Pro will do basic photo editing easily, the difference is when you want to do a little more then you either shell out another 300-400 bucks for Photoshop CS2 or now you buy a copy of Paintshop Pro anyways. Elements only sells in my opinion because of the marketing that trys to make it sound like its a lite version of Photoshop CS2, yeah it's lite, REAL lite.Paintshop Pro is closer to Photoshop CS2 then Elements is by a long shot.

I have both Elements 4 and PaintShop X - which do I use - 99% of the time Elements 4. It may look like a simple program but is very powerful. One nice thing is that there is a wealth of resources (books, etc.) to help you learn and use the program - I have seen any books for PaintShop X. Also the organizer in Elements in my opinion is the best out there. The way it is integrated into the program is excellent.

Like I said I bought them both and use Elements - I feel like I wasted my money on PaintShop - my main gripe is limited resources on the net and otherwise to help use it and discuss it.
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